The government is already paying for a lot of publication costs. Authors pay a fee (page charge) to submit their papers to many nonprofit journals, which (in the US anyway) typically is paid for out of their government grant.
This varies a lot by discipline and country, for example some European countries will not pay page charges as part of government grants, and so the researchers are forced to submit their papers to for-profit journals which do not have a page charge. There are similar pressures for less well-funded researchers and disciplines.
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I haven't looked into it, but someone needs to write a Winamp plugin to decompress this stuff. Now.
No, you haven't looked into it. There already is a Winamp plugin.
Another mozilla landmark was reached recently, at least for those of us who use SGI's IRIX. There is finally a working IRIX build, after being broken for about a year. Check out this page for a script and the latest information, and go get an IRIX mozilla at long last.
Posted with nightly build ID 2000120521 under IRIX 6.5. Haven't tried.6 yet.
My question is this: how do galaxies collide? I mean, I thought that everything started at point A, there was this Big Bang thingy, and everything flew apart from the point A. If that was the case, it should be impossible that anything flung out of the explosion should be on an intersecting path with anything else from the explosion. Think of it this way: isn't it impossible for the light from the sun to "collide" with other sun light, because they start at the same point, and move outward and apart from each other. Why do the paths of galaxies cross?
First of all, the Big Bang isn't a matter of everything in the universe exploding from point A. The Big Bang didn't happen at a point, it's the universe itself (not just the stuff in it, but spacetime itself) expanding everywhere at once. A common 2-D analogy is spots on the surface of a balloon, when you inflate the balloon the spots get further apart, the surface of the balloon has no center, every point is moving away from every other.
As for why the paths of galaxies cross, although the universe is expanding and most galaxies are moving away from any given galaxy, locally that can be different, as gravitational attraction can bring things together if they are close enough to begin with.
...there are some basic functions which I rely upon that don't exist in emacs.
There are things to complain about in Emacs, but lack of features? You must not be looking hard enough. There are always at least 2 or 3 different implementations of any conceivable feature...
I think the poster is right on some points (e.g., the RIAA has been collecting royalties on digital media since this became law), but misses some others. The appeals court ruling in the Napster case isn't a ruling of law, but just a stay of the injunction. We'll see how that plays out (I wouldn't put money on Napster). And as I understand it, computers and computer-based media are exempt from the Audio Home Recording Act, so no royalties are paid on computer CD-Rs, for example (that's why audio CD-Rs cost more, and computer CD-Rs don't work in an audio CD recorder, AFAIK). So computer-based digital recording probably isn't protected by the fair use clause of the Audio Home Recording Act, either. And I don't think that fair use clause includes redistribution of music, only recording for personal use.
What bothers me more is Yahoo's inherent conflict of interest. Originally, Yahoo was useful because it was an index compiled by real humans, in (more or less) useful categories. But as Yahoo's business side has grown to encompass free email, shopping, map servers, just about everything, Yahoo always gets to list its own service first, set off from any of the others. Can we really expect that they will be as rigorous about listing their competitors? Or give a "cool" rating to a service that strongly competes with their own?
Yahoo may be an occasionally useful conglomeration of services now, but its original utility as an unbiased and hand-compiled index is almost entirely gone.
The IRIX build has been broken for months. The most recent nightly build available for IRIX is dated Jan. 27 and doesn't work for me due to bug 11420 (recently marked as a duplicate of bug 10061). One of the (relatively) recent comments on 11420 was "I have no idea what to do here. I'm tempted to invoke my ``if a platform doesn't have one person who cares and knows enough to fix xptcall, I don't care either'' rule, but that doesn't seem very charitable."
The build itself is blocked due to some other bugs. Check out bug 28709, or rather the bugs it depends on (28711 and 28717).
So Mozilla has several showstoppers on IRIX. If anyone has the ability and time to fix this, please do! Otherwise, if you want an IRIX Mozilla, at least go vote for these critical IRIX bugs so that the developers at least know that someone cares.
So by your logic, it would be OK for an ISP to deny access to Catholics, for example, because, after all, they could choose to become Protestant? Or maybe it's OK to refuse service to Democrats, or members of the Sierra Club, or someone who's been divorced, or someone who works for Microsoft.
That sure wouldn't hold up for a restaurant to deny service on these grounds, it shouldn't hold for an ISP either. This kind of discrimination isn't the same as racism, but that doesn't make it OK.
For buying from US companies when you have a US address, the billing address is usually used as proof. But there are a lot of companies that won't let you use a credit card issued outside the US, or even a US-issued one with an international address, because of this verification scheme (they have no way of doing it if it's not all within the US). So much for the global economy. I assume that this request for a photo is an attempt to verify that you have the card. Sort of bizzare, but at least there is a way to make the purchase. Many US companies wouldn't let this guy make the transaction at all, because he has a UK billing address.
I found this a real pain in the ass for dealing with US companies while I was living in Europe last year. I couldn't even order things to be mailed to a US address, because my credit cards were all billed to a foreign one. Amazon.com was one of the few companies that had no problem with this.
5732366247 Here is your navigator : Mozilla/4.73C-SGI [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30; Nav) Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks. You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com If you want to retry. If you want to know more.
Actually, this process is pretty much Darwinian. In the context of biological evolution "best" really has no meaning other than "survivors". The best survive, because they're best at surviving. Tautological, but there you go.
So publicity is a survival mechanism that companies use in the Darwinian world of the marketplace. There are many different successful strategies, and many niches to occupy. Just like in biology.
Not that there aren't differences between technological and biological evolution. Heredity isn't quite as clear in technology, for example.
"If you are an authorized licensee, when you downloaded the following Specification, you agreed to the Agreement..."
and then in the legal notice before the Agreement:
"If you have not downloaded the Specification from Microsoft's website and agreed to the terms and conditions of the Agreement, you are not an authorized licensee of the Specification."
So I guess I'm not an authorized licensee. I don't think (insert standard IANAL here) that I am bound by anything with respect to this license. As far as I can tell, Microsoft doesn't have any intellectual property claims over this document besides copyright. So redistributing the document itself probably does infringe their copyright, but distributing the information contained therein does not.
Fair enough; I was just pointing out the previous poster's distortions of Stallman's argument. For what it's worth, I don't agree with everything RMS says, either; particularly the part about using a crappy free piece of software rather than a commercial one that gets the job done well. Sometimes you just need to get the job done.
And Stallman never used the word "boycott" either, so I guess I'm guilty of distorting what he said to some degree. I'd agree with your distinction on that point. But I think RMS would argue that while it might sometimes be in your short-term best interest to buy "non-free" software, it would never be in your long-term interest to do so. I don't know about that. I'm glad alternatives exist, and I am rather often surprised at how free software is not only a cost-effective way to do a particular task, but also a better one. But at this point (and maybe never) there isn't always a better free alternative.
Note that nowhere does Stallman advocate "mandatory disclosure and a fixed $0.00 price tag on software". He does not speak of laws to "do away with the markets". You've fabricated this out of thin air.
What he is advocating is that users of software do what is in their own best interest (which RMS believes is to use Free Software). This is in fact using the free market (by boycotting non-free software), nowhere close to trying to legislating it out of existence.
A point that he did not directly make is that companies are users of software, too. Most companies use a lot more software than they produce. And so, by his argument, it would follow that it is in the best interests of most businesses to use free software as well, so that they could have control over its use and freely modify it as necessary. So free software could be good for the economy as a whole, even while bad for software compaanies themselves.
I suspect that the less-tested platforms are buggier. There isn't even a working IRIX build more recent than 1/27/00, and that one is broken for me because of bug #11420.
Of course once you hit about an 1/8 c you'd run into relativistic problems that would make you severely uncomfortable.
You'd be fine. Relativistic effects only have to do with relative velocities. As long as the acceleration is within tolerable limits, a juman would feel no effects of moving as close to the speed of light as you like. The universe around you would start to look strange at large fractions of c (more like 3/4 or 9/10 than 1/8).
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The government is already paying for a lot of publication costs. Authors pay a fee (page charge) to submit their papers to many nonprofit journals, which (in the US anyway) typically is paid for out of their government grant.
This varies a lot by discipline and country, for example some European countries will not pay page charges as part of government grants, and so the researchers are forced to submit their papers to for-profit journals which do not have a page charge. There are similar pressures for less well-funded researchers and disciplines.
No, you haven't looked into it. There already is a Winamp plugin.
My old Sparc 5 is loud, though. Especially the hard drive, I wish there was an easy way to quiet that down.
Sun Blade 100 is a cool option for a new machine (and it's not expensive).
There is even a Perl module that can verify checksums for you.
And I won't be soon, because 0.6 is only available for 3 platforms: Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Another mozilla landmark was reached recently, at least for those of us who use SGI's IRIX. There is finally a working IRIX build, after being broken for about a year. Check out this page for a script and the latest information, and go get an IRIX mozilla at long last.
.6 yet.
Posted with nightly build ID 2000120521 under IRIX 6.5. Haven't tried
I say it's over half a pound!
First of all, the Big Bang isn't a matter of everything in the universe exploding from point A. The Big Bang didn't happen at a point, it's the universe itself (not just the stuff in it, but spacetime itself) expanding everywhere at once. A common 2-D analogy is spots on the surface of a balloon, when you inflate the balloon the spots get further apart, the surface of the balloon has no center, every point is moving away from every other.
As for why the paths of galaxies cross, although the universe is expanding and most galaxies are moving away from any given galaxy, locally that can be different, as gravitational attraction can bring things together if they are close enough to begin with.
Niggle (Scrabble for Palm Pilot).
Tide Tool (tides at almost any location)
Strip (encrypted password saver)
Showtimes (keep local movie showings on your Palm)
All are freeware (Tide Tool and Strip are GPL), and Strip (the only one that requires regular synchronization) comes with Unix tools.
There are things to complain about in Emacs, but lack of features? You must not be looking hard enough. There are always at least 2 or 3 different implementations of any conceivable feature...
It's the A udio Home Recording Act of 1992.
I think the poster is right on some points (e.g., the RIAA has been collecting royalties on digital media since this became law), but misses some others. The appeals court ruling in the Napster case isn't a ruling of law, but just a stay of the injunction. We'll see how that plays out (I wouldn't put money on Napster). And as I understand it, computers and computer-based media are exempt from the Audio Home Recording Act, so no royalties are paid on computer CD-Rs, for example (that's why audio CD-Rs cost more, and computer CD-Rs don't work in an audio CD recorder, AFAIK). So computer-based digital recording probably isn't protected by the fair use clause of the Audio Home Recording Act, either. And I don't think that fair use clause includes redistribution of music, only recording for personal use.
NB: I am certainly not a lawyer.
Seems like almost any simple transposition gets you something:
slahsdot.org
salshdot.org
But lsashdot.org is still available!
What bothers me more is Yahoo's inherent conflict of interest. Originally, Yahoo was useful because it was an index compiled by real humans, in (more or less) useful categories. But as Yahoo's business side has grown to encompass free email, shopping, map servers, just about everything, Yahoo always gets to list its own service first, set off from any of the others. Can we really expect that they will be as rigorous about listing their competitors? Or give a "cool" rating to a service that strongly competes with their own?
Yahoo may be an occasionally useful conglomeration of services now, but its original utility as an unbiased and hand-compiled index is almost entirely gone.
The build itself is blocked due to some other bugs. Check out bug 28709, or rather the bugs it depends on (28711 and 28717).
So Mozilla has several showstoppers on IRIX. If anyone has the ability and time to fix this, please do! Otherwise, if you want an IRIX Mozilla, at least go vote for these critical IRIX bugs so that the developers at least know that someone cares.
So by your logic, it would be OK for an ISP to deny access to Catholics, for example, because, after all, they could choose to become Protestant? Or maybe it's OK to refuse service to Democrats, or members of the Sierra Club, or someone who's been divorced, or someone who works for Microsoft.
That sure wouldn't hold up for a restaurant to deny service on these grounds, it shouldn't hold for an ISP either. This kind of discrimination isn't the same as racism, but that doesn't make it OK.
For buying from US companies when you have a US address, the billing address is usually used as proof. But there are a lot of companies that won't let you use a credit card issued outside the US, or even a US-issued one with an international address, because of this verification scheme (they have no way of doing it if it's not all within the US). So much for the global economy. I assume that this request for a photo is an attempt to verify that you have the card. Sort of bizzare, but at least there is a way to make the purchase. Many US companies wouldn't let this guy make the transaction at all, because he has a UK billing address.
I found this a real pain in the ass for dealing with US companies while I was living in Europe last year. I couldn't even order things to be mailed to a US address, because my credit cards were all billed to a foreign one. Amazon.com was one of the few companies that had no problem with this.
5732366247
Here is your navigator : Mozilla/4.73C-SGI [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30; Nav)
Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks.
You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com
If you want to retry.
If you want to know more.
Actually, this process is pretty much Darwinian. In the context of biological evolution "best" really has no meaning other than "survivors". The best survive, because they're best at surviving. Tautological, but there you go.
So publicity is a survival mechanism that companies use in the Darwinian world of the marketplace. There are many different successful strategies, and many niches to occupy. Just like in biology.
Not that there aren't differences between technological and biological evolution. Heredity isn't quite as clear in technology, for example.
But at the beginning of the file it states:
"If you are an authorized licensee, when you downloaded the following Specification, you agreed to the Agreement..."
and then in the legal notice before the Agreement:
"If you have not downloaded the Specification from Microsoft's website and agreed to the terms and conditions of the Agreement, you are not an authorized licensee of the Specification."
So I guess I'm not an authorized licensee. I don't think (insert standard IANAL here) that I am bound by anything with respect to this license. As far as I can tell, Microsoft doesn't have any intellectual property claims over this document besides copyright. So redistributing the document itself probably does infringe their copyright, but distributing the information contained therein does not.
Fair enough; I was just pointing out the previous poster's distortions of Stallman's argument. For what it's worth, I don't agree with everything RMS says, either; particularly the part about using a crappy free piece of software rather than a commercial one that gets the job done well. Sometimes you just need to get the job done.
And Stallman never used the word "boycott" either, so I guess I'm guilty of distorting what he said to some degree. I'd agree with your distinction on that point. But I think RMS would argue that while it might sometimes be in your short-term best interest to buy "non-free" software, it would never be in your long-term interest to do so. I don't know about that. I'm glad alternatives exist, and I am rather often surprised at how free software is not only a cost-effective way to do a particular task, but also a better one. But at this point (and maybe never) there isn't always a better free alternative.
Well, I think you've killed that straw man dead.
Note that nowhere does Stallman advocate "mandatory disclosure and a fixed $0.00 price tag on software". He does not speak of laws to "do away with the markets". You've fabricated this out of thin air.
What he is advocating is that users of software do what is in their own best interest (which RMS believes is to use Free Software). This is in fact using the free market (by boycotting non-free software), nowhere close to trying to legislating it out of existence.
A point that he did not directly make is that companies are users of software, too. Most companies use a lot more software than they produce. And so, by his argument, it would follow that it is in the best interests of most businesses to use free software as well, so that they could have control over its use and freely modify it as necessary. So free software could be good for the economy as a whole, even while bad for software compaanies themselves.
Wells Fargo bill pay is free if you can keep $5000 in your account. That seems a bit high to me. Otherwise it is $5/month.
Slashdot must be one of the more frequently tested sites with Mozilla.
You'd be fine. Relativistic effects only have to do with relative velocities. As long as the acceleration is within tolerable limits, a juman would feel no effects of moving as close to the speed of light as you like. The universe around you would start to look strange at large fractions of c (more like 3/4 or 9/10 than 1/8).